Cortney Davis is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Leopold’s Maneuvers (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. A memoir about her work as a nurse practitioner in women’s health, I Knew a Woman: the Experience of the Female Body (Random House), won the 2002 Connecticut Center for the Book Non-Fiction Award.  She is co-editor of two award-winning anthologies from University of Iowa Press, Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses (1995) and Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses (2004).  Her latest nonfiction collection, The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing, was published by Kent State University Press in January 2009.  A recipient of an NEA Poetry Fellowship, three Connecticut Commission on the Arts poetry grants, and three Pushcart Prize nominations, Davis is the poetry editor of Alimentum: the Literature of Food (www.alimentumjournal.com).